Simple outdoor setup w/ Behringer Xair XR12 + EV ZLX-12BT speakers | Gear Rig Walk Through Rundown
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- A quick run through on the gear that I use to host a small open jam in an outdoor venue. This will also work for indoor venues as well as the ZLX's had plenty of power to fill the park with the help of that 15" sub. The speakers were left on 0db all night. (the sub was turned down below that as it's pretty powerful).
The equipment used is a s follows:
Behringer Xair XR12
TP-Link AC750 travel router
Senheiser E835 microphone
Audix OM-2 Microphone
Yamaha DXS15 (this was a rental as my EKX-18SP didn't show up in time)
1x ZLX-12P
1x ZLX-12BT
Yamaha EMX212 Powered mixer for the floor monitors
Community DnD12 passive speakers as floor monitors
2X ADJ VPAR PAK (super impressed with how bright these were! After the show I turned them around and they lit up the whole park!)
2x American DJ LTS-6 9ft Heavy Duty Tripods
If you have an questions, post them below and I'll do my best to answer them for you!
Hey Mike, Thank you for this well done video! I picked one of these XR12's up a few years ago and have barely used it but it is indeed a great live set up for our little get togethers in non musical venues. Your monitor set up is the thing that really set off a bell as one of my music mates has a little yamaha powered mixer with 2 speakers set up that will work perfect for this.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video!
Not a fan of that monitor setup as it adds a lot of unnecessary complexity and gear to the system. It really should just be 2 powered speakers with signal coming from the stereo headphone out of the XR12 giving separate control over each monitor. Looking at the ALTO 8" as they are small, light and pack a bit of. A punch. For small gigs they should work. But probably not so much for a band with a drum set... Although, at that point the XR12 doesn't have enough inputs to support that anyway.
@@MikeBabsBC Mike Loved this video as I just purchased the XR12. Question: So you would run your monitor mix from the Headphone jack vs. the 2 aux out? with a TRS splitter cable? correct? I have 2 Alto 12 powered speakers I'm using as monitors. Enlighten me on connection you prefer best. Micheal
This is amazing, thank you for sharing this walkthrough. So the acoustic guitar has an XLR input, I haven't seen that before. What are channels 5-10 used for if the guitars go out of 11-12 and only 1-4 have the XLR/ 1/4" combo?
Yup, the acoustic guitar has a balanced xlr out. 5-10 can accommodate keyboards or anything with a line level. Mostly they are left empty.
@@MikeBabsBC Thank you! I have a Cajon that plugs in passively and the signal is very quiet. Does that mean I should put it into the Hi-Z input?
@@MichaelSasser yes, or 1-4 as those inputs have amplifiers built in as well.
awesome!
Thank you! It's an awesome setup.
Great video. I was wondering what type of cables are you using from your Aux Sends to the powered mixer? I am having trouble getting my Aux 1 and Aux 2 sends to work with a powered monitor. It may be a routing problem with X AIR Edit but not sure. Thanks
Thanks! Glad you found this helpful! I'm just using a standard 1/4" TRS cable. Sounds like a routing issue to me. Unfortunately, there could be a bunch of settings that could prevent sound from going out the aux sends. Keep messing around with it, you'll figure it out. 👍
@@MikeBabsBC Thanks Mike. I was able to figure it out. it was a routing issue. I will make sure I'm using 1/4" TRS cables as well. I'm also getting your recommended router. 🙂
@@chwilso I'm glad you got it figured out! It's crazy how many internal settings there are with this mixer. You get 1 wrong and nothing works lol fantastic! That router (any router, really) will ensure that you don't have any connectivity issues.
Hope the weather cooperates for you, Mike! Too bad we didn't hear you play something ;)
Oh, trust me, it's definitely too bad lol ;)
@@MikeBabsBC haha
Gracias!
De nada!
Will the compressors/gates sidechain in the xr12? Id like to install an xair mixer in a bowling alley, but dont need all the i/o of the 16 or 18 channel versions. Just 8 in and 4 out.
Id like the house music to get muted when the jukebox comes on and all the music to come down when making announcements, so the bartenders don't need to mess with levels, except the main volume.
Sidechain? I'm still very basic with this app lol You can download the app and run it in demo mode with full functionality. Then you can see if it will do what you need it to?
@@MikeBabsBC I'll have to give that a shot.. thank you.
Hey Mike, which app do you use to control the XR 12? The reviews are terrible for the X AIR APP saying it crashes constantly therefore making the mixer useless. Thanks for the video!
Hello Clarissa! I have heard the same rumors, but I haven't had any issues with the X Air app, so maybe I'm just lucky lol I do have Mixing Station X Air on my phone (Android) as backup. But I find that X Air app is a nicer experience.
@@MikeBabsBC Thank you
Been using the xair for 5 years now for my gigs and for online streaming and the app has never crashed. Using the wifi option u will lose connection unless u use an independent router thats using windows and androids not sure about Mac OS
USB Capacity how big does it has to be? And do it records all tracks in one, with effects and all? Thanks !
It's an older usb slot, so I imagine there is an upper limit to the max size you can use. You'd have to check the behringer website for the exact specs. but I was using an 8gb micro SD card in a usb adapter and it worked fine. It does record in wav format, not mp3 so the files are huge. If you are recording a long show then you will make big files.
HI.. thank you for this video. I've been reworking my rig. I have an XR12 as well and a portable gear case now and was thinking...I'd like to hardwire my iPad into the XR12 but play my backing tracks from either a second iPad or my laptop. BUT I need to utilize the establishments wifi connection for internet for certain apps on my laptop ( or second iPad) and right now when I hook up the laptop to the mixer.. obviously I have to use the mixer's IPaddress ( which I have an external router for as well. ) which then doesn't allow me to get online onto the internet. So.. would that work for me without interference? Just hardwire the iPad to the mixer and still hook up my laptop to the mixer's 5 and 6 channels to play tracks from and then be able to hop onto the venue's internet with my laptop (or 2nd iPad) without confusing both of the devices connection attempts? I also use a wireless mic and wireless IEM. ( In my portable rack is: a Shure Mic receiver, Shure mic IEM, external extended antennas, furman power conditioner, external router, XR12 and storage drawer just for reference. )
You'd be fine connecting an iPad to your xr12 and then using a laptop to access wifi and feed audio out through the headphone jack into one of the 1/4" input. The mixer will just see that as a line in, not a computer so won't mess with your iPad connection. As for running other wireless gear, I use a cheap small travel router and connect to that via 5G, so it's a solid connection for me and others that I got the idea from. Does that answer your question?
@@MikeBabsBC Ok. Yes. That answers my initial question. Thank You very much for your speedy reply. Now I guess I just have to grab an iPad ethernet adapter to hard wire into the external router. The cheapy router I have ( to hardwire the iPad to) is a 5G router, but you're saying maybe pick up a second?
@@pattyspeedmusic awesome! Ssooo, why do you want to hardwire the iPad to the router instead of using your 5g router?
@@MikeBabsBC I guess I was thinking for the ultimate safety of not losing the digital mixer sound hook up. A safety measure. Due to a lot of interference cell phones etc. ? Do you think I don't need to hardwire it?🧐th-cam.com/video/xLqc_4Q4ERY/w-d-xo.html. Plus I can't seem to have full control over my IEM monitor that I use without being hardwired in. Maybe I'm missing something.
@@pattyspeedmusic If you don't need to be mobile with your iPad, then I'm with you on hard wiring it. I am not sure how to do that with an iPad though, sorry 😊
The connection issues with the behringers, so I'm told, is due to the internal router only allowing 5 connections at a time. Unfortunately, when a new device tries to connect it boots the oldest connection... So, at an event, whenyou connect to the router with your iPad, 5 others patrons phones try to connect to your behringer, even though they can't actually connect (as they don't have the password) those 5 new connections bump yours off. Using an external router, you won't have this issue as they are designed for many connections.
So, your IEM, you only loose partial functionality when connecting the iPad to the router or it doesn't work at all? Is the IEM 2.4g or 5g?
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Mike how is the router setup you got working out. And can you tell me what the settings on your xr. And the tp link to make it work correctly.
The router is working flawlessly! I got my setting from the XR Facebook group. Someone made a geveric scene with channels set up for vocals, guitar bass, etc so I used that as a starting point and fine tuned from there.
@@MikeBabsBC awesome. Now on the router itself is it on client or access point. And what is the xr set on
@@jeremyallen3448 sorry, I can't remember what the router settings are. I think all I did was change the password and it worked. All I did with the XR is ug it in and set the switch to remote ethernet.
Hi what model is the router an which xr fb group that you reference thanks
Hi! This is the router I purchased: amzn.to/3sVyHeA and there is a great Facebook group called "Behringer X-AIR + Midas M-AIR Mixers Group" that is very helpful.
how is each individual monitor mixed? thanks
It's easy since there is only 2 monitors. I have control over each of them individually by sending a left and right bus signal out of the XR12 to the powered monitor mixer, then splits left/right to each monitor speaker (this can be simplified by using powered monitor speakers so you don't need that powered mixer).
Then in the XR12 app I control what goes through each monitor.
Hey Mike may I know where we can purchase that wireless usb printer? 🥰 thnx a lot
What printer are you referring to?
Time stamp at 0:22 sec. The one that was attached to the USB slot.
@@migzmuzika2997 that is a thumb drive connected to the USB slot.
The white device to the left of the unit is a wireless router, not a printer.
@@MikeBabsBC i See. . Thanks a lot Mike. . God bless
Can the inputs be configured as stereo IN?
Each one of the inputs is a MONO input, but you can get a simple splitter cable so you have separate left and right inputs. Then in the app, you can link those 2 channels together as a stereo pair, so adjusting 1 track also adjusts the other equally. Hope that answered your question.
@@MikeBabsBC Thanks
Next question... Can the unit be used standalone, without wifi connection, holding previous settings? So, you could turn the unit on & away you go with whatever was pre-set...
@@palindromeAU I'll have to check this next time I use it to confirm, but I believe it resumes every setting as it was when it was shut off. Why wouldn't you want to connect to the wifi?
@@MikeBabsBC I don't want to menu dive all the time. I prefer a set & forget setup as I'm a solo artist.
Where can I get a router like that?
I got it off Amazon. Just search travel router.
But how do you get the WiFi signal ? How does ir work?
@@yeeniz10 conect the router to the mixer
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